2 Kings 25:6

25:6 They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, 1  where he 2  passed sentence on him.

2 Kings 25:20-21

25:20 Nebuzaradan, captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 25:21 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed 3  at Riblah in the territory 4  of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.

1 sn Riblah was a strategic town on the Orontes River in Syria. It was at a crossing of the major roads between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Pharaoh Necho had earlier received Jehoahaz there and put him in chains (2 Kgs 23:33) prior to taking him captive to Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar had set up his base camp for conducting his campaigns against the Palestinian states there and was now sitting in judgment on prisoners brought to him.

2 tn The Hebrew text has the plural form of the verb, but the parallel passage in Jer 52:9 has the singular.

3 tn Heb “struck them down and killed them.”

4 tn Heb “land.”